Description: The book includes a completely new final chapter, text and notes rewritten throughout to incorporate evidence and scholarship that has appeared over the past twenty-five years, and an index of ancient sources.
Brief description: Mark Golden is a professor of classics at the University of Winnipeg. He is the author of Sport and Society in Ancient Greece and Greek Sport and Social Status.
Review Quotes: Greatly impressed by Golden's work on two general counts. First, there's his ability to make clear for the non-specialist the thought-processes of his discipline . . . Second, the range of his reference to various other fields, to modern literature and history, to the diversity of cultural experience and the universals of human existence.
--Tim Morris, Lection